Paul Brown - 'Origins and Emergence - a brief history of the digital arts'
Thursday 1st May 2008, 6.00pm - 7.15pm
http://www.ioctsalon.com/events/paulbrown/
Doors open at 5.30pm for drinks. This event is free and open to the public,
however places are limited - email info [at] ioctsalon.com to reserve a seat.
Download the flyer for this event (PDF, 150KB) -
http://www.ioctsalon.com/events/paulbrown/IOCTSalon_080501_paulbrown.pdf
This illustrated presentation will give an overview of the history of the
digital arts from their origins in the analogue kinetics and Jazz/Poetry
performances of the 1950's to current practice. Key themes like Artificial
Intelligence, Artificial Life/Emergence, Computational and Generative,
Interaction, Convergence, Communication and Networking will be identified
and discussed. In particular the speaker will revisit predictions he made in
the late 1980's when he suggested that any new media need a minimum 40 year
gestation period which he suggests is now coming to term. He will illustrate
this hypothesis by using current web2 manifestations as examples of digital
media emerging in their own right in contrast to our previous metaphorical
adaptations.
About Paul:
Paul Brown is an Anglo-Australian artist and writer who has specialised in
art, science & technology since the late 1960s and in computational &
generative art since the mid 1970s. His international exhibition record
spans four decades and includes the creation of both permanent and temporary
public artworks. He has participated in shows at major venues like the TATE,
Victoria & Albert and ICA in the UK; the Adelaide Festival; ARCO in Spain
and the Venice Biennale. His work is represented in public, corporate and
private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia and the USA.
From 1997-99 he was Chair of the Management Board of the Australian Network
for Art Technology and he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for
LEA, the e-journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and
Technology (MIT Press), and the journal Digital Creativity (Routledge). From
1992 to 1999 he edited fineArt forum, one of the Internet's longest
established art 'zines and he is currently Chair of the international
Computer Arts Society (CAS) and moderator of the DASH (Digital ArtS
Histories) and CAS e-lists.
During 2000/2001 he was a New Media Arts Fellow of the Australia Council
when he spent 2000 as artist-in-residence at the Centre for Computational
Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) at the University of Sussex in Brighton,
England. From 2002-05 he was a visiting fellow in the School of History of
Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, where
he worked on the CACHe (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc...) project
and he is currently (2005-08) visiting professor and artist-in-residence at
the CCNR, University of Sussex where he is working on a project to evolve
robots that can draw.
He lives on the Sunshine Coast in SE Queensland, Australia.
Examples of his artwork and publications are available on his website at
http://www.paul-brown.com.
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